Equipment to get started
Two boxes just arrived. I’m EXCITED!! I'm waiting for one more... the little Dell box with my laptop computer. It should arrive in about a week. Then the journey will officially begin. Here’s what we purchased to get started:
1 - Dragon Naturally Speaking 8 Preferred - about $250 - Amazon.com
(We later found we needed to upgrade to Dragon Professional in order to save audio) $539.99 - Amazon.com
1 - SY100 TalkTech Sylencer with single mic & 1/8" plug - $189.00 talktech.com
1 - USB100 Half Duplex (Mono) Andrea USB Adapter - $44.95 - talktech.com
We picked Dragon because it has a reputation for being more accurate than it's competition, IBM’s Via Voice. Via Voice is faster, but not as intelligent. I understand that Dragon looks at the context of the sentence to choose the correct homophone (words that sound alike but are spelled different - like "bear" and "bare"). This reduces the number of mistakes.
The Sylencer is a steno mask microphone. It silences the speech of the Voice Writer and also serves to block out any background noise. Since our goal is to caption our entire church service,
it will be impossible to train the computer to recognize every voice used on stage. To remedy this, we will use a "shadow speaker." This person will train the software to recognize his/her voice and then will repeat what is being said from the variety of speakers on stage.
posted by Glenna @ 2:25 PM
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Hi. I just came across your blog and am excited to see that it contains lots of useful information. I wanted to invite you to join our Yahoo group, Collective Court Reporters. Among our members are students, working reporters, voice writers, and stenographers. We are trying to keep our group small but diverse. This group is a great place to get advice, give advice, network, and vent, if needed. If interested, please email me at arikamichel(at)yahoo.com.
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